Lamphun : Wat Phra Bat Huai Tom

Wat Phra Bat Huai Tom is the largest temple in the district, boasting a large Lanna-style Chedi and an extensive place of worship built in laterite by Karens living in the vicinity who were admirers of the highly revered Phra Kru Ba Chaiwongsa.


Completely unplanned did we come across this huge Chedi on Highway 106 close to the town of Li. It must be the pure scale in relation to the landscape but this seemed to be the tallest Chedi we had seen so far. In the outside wall of it are images of every important monk of Thailand (as far as I can tell). People here didn't speak Thai but rather seemed to be from the Karen Mountain tribe.